Ex-physicist Tom Beddard develops his own ‘home-brewed’ programs that generate interesting math based images and shapes. By checking out Surface Detail you might get a good example of his software's capabilities and how they can generate such impressive fractal aesthetics.

The above image is a "rotating planetoid structure, mutated through a steadily transitioning surface of subdivisioned self-similar cells." "The effect is morphogenetic, biological and botanical." Just check out the video below, words aren't be needed.